Based on its meeting with Weather Trends International CEO Bill Kirk, Cowen said in a note Tuesday that the second-half could turn out great for retailers. The key takeaways from the meeting include August being the coolest in 13 years and a potential positive metric for back-to-school apparel...

Among the hundreds of fundamental and technical indicators used by traders and investors to find stocks poised to deliver the highest return, happiness rarely plays into the equation. Emotions aren’t exactly a feature on a company’s 10-Q or a factor in calculating sentiment.
However, a...

Stephen Colbert hosted the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night, and as always there were plenty of surprising winners and losers on the night. Here’s an overview of some people, shows and networks that came out on top and some that disappointed.
Winner: HBO
Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)'...

By now, Americans have become accustomed to seeing marijuana news on mainstream and financial media. However, few reporters and journalists covering the industry are actually specialized, thus treating cannabis as a novelty act, a passing fad, or an alternative investment strategy, at the most....

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma body slammed two of the biggest export-import hubs in the world, and the impact on prices and shipping costs will be felt for months in places far removed from the scenes of destruction.
The impact on ports — Houston alone is the world’s sixth-largest —...

As most traders know, September has historically been the worst month for the stock market by a wide margin. There are a lot of potential reasons behind this, the main one being that traders returning from summer vacation rapidly pour volume back into the market. The best way to exercise due...

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey and in anticipation of Hurricane Irma, some investors have been paying renewed attention to timber and forestry exchange-traded funds. The dominant names in that group are the Guggenheim MSCI Global Timber ETF (NYSE: CUT) and the iShares Global Timber & Forestry...

With its big product event looming, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is expected to include augmented reality in one of the last big hurrahs of the smartphone era, as well as hints of its efforts to outwit the deep machine learning of an alluring minx named Alexa.
Two key analysts have slightly different...

Hurricane Harvey's devastation on Texas has impacted 30,000 people who were forced to abandon their homes and another 13,000 others were rescued in the Houston region alone, Statista reported. Meanwhile, the death toll stands at 46 although this could change and the final human and economic cost...

Hurricane Harvey has triggered a unique phenomenon in the U.S. oil and gas industry. Since the devastating flooding in South Texas and Louisiana has disrupted far more crude oil refining capacity in the region than production capacity, the net result of the storm has been less crude oil being...

The defense industry is revamping military drones in a race to capture a target-rich new market: the police helicopter, a patrol mainstay of thousands of cop shops worldwide.
The Federal Aviation Administration is already working with defense contractors to develop rules governing drones that would...

The Rust Belt is rapidly becoming the domain of industrial robots, with Michigan being home to a staggering 12 percent of the nation’s automated workforce.
In terms of pure density, Detroit and another Michigan city, Grand Rapids, trail only Toledo just over the Ohio border as the Big Three...